2006-08-06 07:36:45 · 17 answers · asked by precious73@verizon.net 2 in Local Businesses ➔ United States ➔ San Diego
yes but not in the U.S.A. more than 84 people on death row have been exonerated by DNA evidence. their is a problem with the justice system that must be fixed first. in Singapore they Had a problem with drug smugglers. their solution was to change the penalty from imprisonment to hanging. their drug smuggling dropped 95%. that is why I am for it.
2006-08-06 07:48:07 · answer #1 · answered by biggun4570 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, because people can't change after they die, and look at the crime rate in countries with the death penalty. Compare U.S.A. with Canada. Compare both with Saudi Arabia. It's not the death penalty that works, it's corporal punishment and that I believe in. Corporal punishment also allows people to change.
I don't understand people who think neutering a repeat rapist is cruel and unusual punishment when they're willing to kill the person! Corporal punishment would also allow the innocent who are falsely accused to live, though maimed. Maybe this is why governments call it cruel and unusual punishment not because it is so, but because they worry about getting sued by the falsely accused who survive under corporal punishment.
2006-08-06 14:51:45 · answer #2 · answered by tyreanpurple 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only in the most extreme cases, such as Timothy McVeigh and, god willing, Isama bin Laden.
Otherwise, life in prison is a much more suitable punishment. It takes away from the purpose of capital punishment to use it every day like a can-opener, the way Mr. Bush did in Texas. Murders actually increased there under Bush because of the great fear of leaving live witnesses. No governor or judge in American history ever executed more prisoners than George Bush, and even when it became apparent this was engendering rather than diminishing capital crimes, Dubya wouldn't back down. He'll never learn. It's that low "C" average IQ.
No wonder he doesn't believe in evolution. He and his followers have never been under the influence of it-- apes forever.
2006-08-06 14:50:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
All verdicts have the possibility of being delived to the wrong person. If the death penalty was around, then you have the chance of sending an innocent person to their death, not to mention the long mentaly unstabling wait on death row.
It is an outdated meathod of punishment which should be abolished everywhere.
2006-08-06 14:42:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep..
It should be like in China..
If you are convicted there and receive the death penalty, it is carried out within 24 hours.. Sometime within 24 minutes.
Why should the tax payers have to pay over $ 100,000 per year just to keep some sleazy guy or gal on death row.
2006-08-06 14:42:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2006-08-06 14:39:57 · answer #6 · answered by Amy H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I agree,
2006-08-06 14:45:34 · answer #7 · answered by No one 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The criminal knew the consequences.Commit the crime and die.It isn't a mistake it's premeditated.The vast majority of humans on the Earth live their lives and never commit a crime.It's real easy to be innocent!
2006-08-06 15:00:01 · answer #8 · answered by Balthor 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, its simply an easy way out. They should be jailed in single cells instead? I look at it as giving them the chance to rethink about their wrongs and hopefully they realise it and thus not lived a completely wasted life.
2006-08-06 14:49:31 · answer #9 · answered by claudialin 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sort of i think the prison system shouldn't separate inmates for fighting that should just about do it prison gangs are good to because they serve a public service i think it would solve overcrowding and the appeals issue if we're going to feed them we should get something in return
2006-08-06 14:46:25 · answer #10 · answered by Wyatt Earp 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋